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replace URL illegal characters with hyphen using RegEx
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illegal-character-replace-regex
" 0123456789 _+-.,!@#$%^&*();\/|<>"'~`?=:".replace(/[\/\s&!@#$%^*(){}[\];\\|<>"'?,.~`+=:]/g,'-')
// http://regexr.com/3h9d0
/* To quote section 2.3 of RFC 3986:
"Characters that are allowed in a URI but do not have a reserved purpose are called unreserved. These include uppercase and lowercase letters, decimal digits, hyphen, period, underscore, and tilde."
ALPHA DIGIT "-" / "." / "_" / "~"
*/
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